Re: [xsl] Advice on dictionary conversion

[Emmanuel Bégué <eb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Ciaran S Duibhmn
<ciaran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Several people advised to do the conversion as a series of small steps, and
> I will keep that in mind.  However, I am developing my conversion on a
> non-final version of a part of the dictionary (the letter D), so it must be
> re-runnable on the other letters, as well as on the final version of D!

The point of developing in a series of small steps is to reduce the
complexity of the work into a series of simple manageable tasks.

A "series of small steps" means that you write each transformation as
an independent program that takes as input the result of the previous
step, and feeds its own production to the next step.

But it does not mean that each step is somehow thrown away: you should
link each step in a whole automated chain that can be run as one big
transformation (using a shell script, a batch file, Ant, etc.)

In the end you should be able to use this big chain on any other
letter or the whole dictionary.

Regards,
EB